Franklin Foer In Conversation with Hanna Rosin

September 14, 2017
Washington, DC

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Over the past several decades, a profound consolidation of knowledge and information has changed how we contemplate the world, saysAtlanticNational Correspondent Franklin Foer in his new bookWorld Without Mind.In it, he examines how tech titans Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Google have produced a culture of misinformation, one he argues is diminishing our capacity for private contemplation, autonomous thought or solitary introspection. In order to restore our inner lives, Foer writes, we must avoid being co-opted by technology’s corporate forces and understand the ideas that underpin their success.

Please joinThe Atlanticand Sixth & I for an evening with Franklin Foer in conversation with AtlanticNational Correspondent Hanna Rosin. Book signing to follow.

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